The biggest news for me this year is publication of Unexpected Guests at Blackbird Lodge, a novel set in New York’s Adirondack mountains. I’m classifying it as a literary fiction/cozy mystery/romance that takes place over a week at a writers’ workshop at a lodge. Click the title on the menu for the
One could go on for pages about the similarities of birthing a book and baby: moments of delight at conception, nausea during the early stages while an idea takes hold, exciting expansion of the middle, and hours of hearing about other births or miscarriages–award winning novels and novels abandoned. Others
“Write what you know.” That’s writing advice of long standing. As one story goes, Louisa May Alcott followed this advice and wrote Little Women after a publisher pointed out her tales of lords and ladies were not authentic. I’ve been asked often if I wrote about my own family in
Many writers I’ve met rarely, if ever, submit work for publication. Perhaps a rejection or two has been a discouragement, or they not submitted for years recalling the chore of packaging pages to send to one outlet at a time. Next was the wait of six months before the rejection